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Upon arriving at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, identified as inmate #31614, he warned the warden: "I'll kill the first man that bothers me". Because he was considered too psychotic, he was assigned to work alone in the prison laundry room, where the foreman, Robert Warnke, was known to bully and harass other prisoners under him. Warnke soon ...
Thomas Edward Silverstein (born Thomas Edward Conway; February 4, 1952 – May 11, 2019) was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned for armed robbery, one of which was overturned. [2]
It was the first time in the history of the United States that a white man was sentenced to death for the murder of a black man. [ 40 ] While on death row, Gaskins said he committed between 100 and 110 murders, [ 41 ] including that of Margaret "Peg" Cuttino, the 13-year-old daughter of then South Carolina State Senator James Cuttino Jr. of Sumter.
[76] Frederick's video diary, sent home from Iraq, provided some of the images used in the story. In it he listed detailed, dated entries that chronicled abuse of CIA prisoners, as well as their names: "The next day the medics came in and put his body on a stretcher, placed a fake [intravenous drip] in his arm and took him away.
The Attica Prison riot took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were ...
The man was awaiting trial on burglary, asault and drug charges, according to The News Tribune. The man hanged himself with a strip of a bedsheet, a sheriff's spokesman said. Jail or Agency: Pierce County Jail; State: Washington; Date arrested or booked: 10/1/2015; Date of death: 7/5/2016; Age at death: 47; Sources: www.thenewstribune.com
The agency's statement said inmate Jaydrekus Hart fatally shot a food service worker in the prison's kitchen at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, then used the gun to kill himself.
The report said that retribution for snitching led to an increased incidence of inmate-on-inmate violence at the prison in the late 1970s. [15] There had been several disturbances at the prison prior to the riot. In 1976, a work strike was organized by inmates as a response to the prison's poor conditions.